NEW DELHI, Jan. 9 -- As if two years were not enough, Covid-19 is striking again in full steam, albeit in a different avatar. China, Japan, France, Brazil and the US have witnessed a sudden increase in the Covid-19 cases during the last one month. The situation in China has reached alarming levels. China's health officials reveal that around 250 million people got infected over the first 20 days of December. Another report suggests that over 37 million people got infected in a single day! Of course, the official data is comparatively very low.

Covid-19 was first detected in China around the same time two years ago. It didn't take much time to become a global pandemic. A slight memory of those days sends shivers down one's spine. Millions...